5,000th comment.

so coming up in the next month or so will be the 5,000th comment on this blog. And I’ve been thinking of a fun way to celebrate it, and this is what I’ve come up with…

I think we should have a party. so the 10 readers who make the 4,991-5,000th comment will be invited with a guest to a cocktail party at my house. It’ll be fun. We’ll drink lots of champagne, do a few lines (kidding), and I might even do a little bit of cooking (or actually maybe I’ll just have Bombers or Wolff’s cater it. which is more likely. or wait. MAYBE, I’ll have my mom bring out some delicious UTICA FOOD for the party! Yum).

and then after the cocktail party we’ll mosey on over to Wolff’s and get drunker. (more drunk?) Speaking of Wolff’s, we’ve extended the live German music series for a few more months. If you haven’ seen it yet, go to Wolff’s tonight at around 7. It’s so much fun.

UPDATE: Just to clarify, the number at the end of the URL doesn’t indicate the true number of comments. That number includes all comments, including SPAM and non-approved comments. So the actual number of comments is known to me, and me only. However, if you catch me after a few, you can probably get the actual number out of me.

Congrats on making a very popular blog. You cover quite the array of topics in a fun way. How long has the blog actually been running? I am interested to see how long it took the pros to get to 5,000 comments.

If you are absolutely serious.. you’ve just created a monster. I’m just going to post non-stop. (btw, apparently you know my husband and he’s been to your place for a party and now Im jealous. Help a sista out)

Dang – now we’re going to have to quit our jobs and dedicate ourselves to commenting.
Suggest only “real” comments get counted.
ie: “did i win?” or “hi” don’t count – they’re just shameless bids to go to a party!
But this is a grand idea – for everyone!!!

I must advise you Matt, lest you are a glutton for a thunderstorm of complaints, you should post some rules. Many will comment, and I’m sure there will be comments that you for whatever reason will not publish or count as a comment. My suggestion is obviously the normal rules of the blog, but you should have the sole discretion to not count comments that serve no purpose other than getting their name on the list.

That being said, I think that is a nice gesture to share with your community and thank those who have shown great interest in you and your businesses.

I have a confession. Numbers are my friends, I know I sound crazy but I work in a very numerical and mathematical field. According to my mathematical figures, you are currently at 3,468 comments. ( For all those people who are wondering, there have been 3,467 comments prior to this one.) There have been 92 Posts with an average of 37.696 comments per post. For the real math junkies, the lowest comments on a post was 1, and the highest was 288.

For those who would love an invite. If the trends of this blog stay true, that would be 1 post per day would make the 5,000 comment in 40.6 Days. I’m not going to actually figure that out on a calendar for you, if your dieing for an invite you gotta do a little work for it too

I would like to say, that I love this blog and read it every day. The topics are real and the comments are generally in good nature and spirit. I think its awesome that you would open up your home and invite your readers. However, I do think we should include an occasional Friday Cat too

Enjoy your reading capital region and good luck to all the hopeful invite winners! I’ll be trying my luck